@MyName Here It's possible to edit core engine assets, and that can cause issues down the line. That's why it's a good idea to make copies of those core assets, and reference the copies that you edit, rather than changing the originals. This can have a cascading effect on (likely tons) of other assets that reference the originals.
I understand your point, and agree ,but is not bad to let some people know how modify some parameters, i remember first time i lost hours for understand what was that simple (i'm an amateur not pro)
Not only did you come out with a tutorial on a super new system that we all are trying to learn to use, you did it in a very well explained manner. Thanks for showing all this!
The one thing that missing is wet sand... I already doing a beach scene long time ago, but still stuck with the wet sand... Can you make a tutor?... When the waves hit sand and makes the sand looks wet at certain period of times...
In 4.27... for some reason, when I drop the water body in (in this case, lake) all I get are splines. No water. I've ensured materials are added but still nothing. Help?
Hi, I've had similar issues when I was using this back in UE4.26 and afraid I didn't find a solution. If you do discover the answer, I'd love to know it :)
hi im having an issue where the water isn't affecting my landscape at all, im dragging the river actors until place and moving the splines where i want them but it just doesnt do anything
I'm doing this in 4.27. When i drag in the water body ocean, the yellow line is extremely jagged and the edge of the water doesn't actually lap onto the landscape. It's like there's an invisible barrier that prevents the water from touching the landscape and I can actually see the edge of the slope, separate from the water. I've changed the falloff settings but nothing seems to work.
@@zangreiner1048 yes...but I'm not fully sure why it happened. In the terrain section of the details for the water body, there's an Elevation Curve section with a picture of a curve and a dropdown menu. In that menu I had a couple preset options, including FogBrightnessLut, none of which fixed the issue. When I duplicated the level to try starting over with the water body, that dropdown had way more options and the FloatCurve_Island preset worked for me (although as i look into the dropdown right now, I again only see the FogBrightnessLut as an option, if I wanted to change the curve preset). Do you already have that Island curve preset selected? I have no idea why I'm only able to see it sometimes
which build do you have? on my build it doesn't look at this AT ALL. the underwater mesh is like 1 meter deep only, and the river cannot rise above sea level.
I was using Preview 3 in this version. Interesting differences you mentioned - noticed some issues depending on the Z values I had for the landscape and water systems. I found if I set the landscape and ocean to 100 on the Z that I got more predictable results. I'd keen to know how you go
If i make my Scene excatly like yours and i make a Lake too, then if i put the "BP_Buoyancy" in this Lake, there is no Buoyancy like in the Ocean! Is there any Solution for this problem?
My landscape doesn't get clipped/Doesn't have its contours changed when I add the ocean body. My landscape has `Enable edit layers`, I have both plugins enabled and I am running my project on UE 4.26.1. any ideas on why this may be happening?
Build all levels, you should get an error like "this water brush requires a landscape refrence" or so. You could find out how to add it, or remove the water thing and readd it until it works. Thats what i did so unfourtently i can only maybe point at the problem you got.
@@pietpanzerpanzer5335 I'm pretty sure I managed to fix it the very same day I commented this, but how - I don't remember. It was for a very old canceled project.
Can the waves be adjusted during playing? Say the character is sailing and a storm is starting to brew up. Or are the waves just static based on what you have set in the editor??
@Paul van Dinther Too many elements, each one having 80% chance to not work normally and taking ages to understand. And what if I have a tiled landscape? I guess like for landscape layers blueprints I can forgot.
Hi! I have one question ＞﹏＜ I don't see a control point (?) to adjust the shape of all water operations. Is my computer specification a problem? I really don't know why
Hi Nicolas, I'm not sure I understand - the water system was pushed in 4.26 preview 3 and is also present in preview 4 - does that answer your question?
@@SnapLaunch i say this because we got a livestream on epic games youtube channel showcasing 4.26 features a few days ago, and they didn't show the water system
@@SnapLaunch wow, thank you! Btw, afaik this is an upscaling method that produces really high quality images, so the point of it is to use a lower input resolution to produce higher output resolution results (kind of like DLSS but algorithm based and not Machine-Learned)
@@Xperto_ Thanks for explaining it as it's new to me. If they pull off anything close to the latest DLSS outcomes without the ML I'll gratefully accept such magic!
"Enable Edit Layers" must be turned on for the landscape. Additionally, on occasion, I've also found that I have to create the water multiple times to get it to work
@@idanben-moshe1317 At the moment I have compile errors in mine, so I'm holding off going through it. However if you'd like to explore fluid sims - in engine, in the Content Browser, click the bottom right eye with 'view options', choose 'Show Plugin Content', then on the left, search for 'fluid' and under the 'Fluid Simulation' folder you'll find example levels relating to interaction and ripples
So this all works great, until I package, then the boats do what it does with one pontoon...Have you tried to package this after building? Maybe someone can verify that it works on their end for me?
When playing my level with a water body ocean my character runs around fine until I get near the waters edge then the character disappears and the view becomes static. Any ideas why this is happening?
sir i hvae two landscape . landscape 1 and landscape 2 for making level design. so when i put river body in one landscape it appear but when in put in landscape 2 it dont appear where the problem is
I've had that happen a number of times and found the only to get it is to try recreating it. Sometimes I've gone into new levels and recreated it and then returned to the level I was originally working in and it works. Wish I had something more solid to offer. Hopefully this ocean will be more stable and predictable in future.
does anyone know if this is a known problem? (understandable, since this is all still in development) - my buoyant object always "falls off" each water type; from lake to river, my object sinks right as it gets to the edge of the lake and same from river to ocean...
Another video comment suggested this, but it's is not seeming to help - I check Generate Overlap Events During Level Streaming on my object under Collision; and I have tried all 3: Use Config Default, Only Update Moveable, and Always Update and my boat still "falls off"/sinks at the edge of a lake or river...am I doing something wrong?
Well you could replace the water material with a custom shader, but it seems like you'd be missing out on a lot of the work done by EPIC. Is there something this water shader doesn't support that you're looking to achieve?
I came to this video hoping to find the answer to this questions: how would you go about setting up the actual buoyancy parts? How would you set up the Center socket and key in the Relative Location? Or extract the location data of the ship? I appreciate any feedback. but it does not explain anything about how he did it. Could you find the solution?
when i drop the river object in it has no shader or material attatched. Any ideas ? It seems to me that this plugin does not work if you are using a height map and importing the landscape instead of creating one and sculpting it
I've had the surface not work, but the underwater not working is a new one to me. Thanks for letting me know - I'll keep any eye out for this and hope you find the answer in short order :)
I'm litteraly crying....as a incredible noob with U4 and programming in general for have this exact same result with older version i had to work for like hours before and the final result was always horrible, water was always my nightmare .How about the interaction and bouancy of object?
Hi, I'm busy currently but I would encourage you to keep trying :) I haven't explored the waves much beyond this example, however you may like to try using the Buoyancy component to float the boat and have the people as children of the boat. I'd be curious to know what solution you discover - good luck!
In my heightmap based landscape I have no way to use the lake or river if the ocean one is already in the scene, they just don't render. If I drop the lake first then when I add the ocean it sculpt the landscape in something unusable. It sucks the lack of documentation, I understand this is experimental but Epic doesn't give a fuck about developers.
Hi great tutorial. i have built an island system. Put in the water plain got it the way i like it but when i do a test play there is no water any ideas. Thanks
Nice, unfortunately I haven't encountered the water disappearing at runtime. If you're not already running the latest Preview (5 at the time of writing this) I would to try updating to it and keen to know if that changes anything? Thanks
Hi just to let you know I solved the problem. I unloaded the plugin then re installed it and the shallow water one and now it's fine. On a side note do you have or know of a tutorial for chopping down trees or mining rocks so you can collect them.
@@BrianSmithgrumpygit Hi Brian, thanks for letting me know you were using preview 5 and how you solved it. Regarding the tutorials, I am unaware of examples for the ones you mentioned, but hope you discover something useful. Cheers, Ben
This plugin just don't work well in my projects. I see a lot of artifacts, sometimes materials don't compile, falloff settings just literaly do nothing. I am very disapointed :(
Careful advising people to edit default assets, versus making a copy and working with those (materials, for example). Apart from that, good stuff!
Hi Nathan, good point - I'll use instantiation more in future videos - thanks. Cheers, Ben
@MyName Here It's possible to edit core engine assets, and that can cause issues down the line. That's why it's a good idea to make copies of those core assets, and reference the copies that you edit, rather than changing the originals. This can have a cascading effect on (likely tons) of other assets that reference the originals.
I understand your point, and agree ,but is not bad to let some people know how modify some parameters, i remember first time i lost hours for understand what was that simple (i'm an amateur not pro)
@@gidipadipagi5602Nathan is saying to make a copy of the material your editing because that might be a core asset and cause issues.
Not only did you come out with a tutorial on a super new system that we all are trying to learn to use, you did it in a very well explained manner. Thanks for showing all this!
Thanks Stelz - I greatly appreciate your thoughtful comment!
Without this video, I was lost. Thank you!
Great to hear it helped!
Hello, man! It really helps! Short, precise and very informative video. Thank you a lot!
That's great to hear Serge! I appreciate your feedback! Thank you! Cheers, Ben
Nice tutorial ! Congrats for your 1k subscribers
Thanks Olivier! :D
Thank you for the tutorial I can finally finish my landscape scene
Excellent!
Your tutorials are really helpful!! Keep it up👍🏽
Thanks! Will do
Thanks, this will be fun to play with. It's got me curious as to how to use this on a landscape that forms multiple islands.
Sounds like fun - bring on the archipelagos :)
Very well explained , Not Like just on an on 👍✌️
Thanks
The one thing that missing is wet sand... I already doing a beach scene long time ago, but still stuck with the wet sand... Can you make a tutor?... When the waves hit sand and makes the sand looks wet at certain period of times...
Wet sand would be nice indeed. Thanks for the tutorial suggestion
Astonishing. Epic has a lot to be proud of with UE4 but I think this is their pièce de résistance.
Very impressive indeed.
Ben! you are the Man!
Thanks Айрат! Glad to help
Nice and quick. Thank you.
You bet!
wow, new tech i need to know. thanks
Happy to help
Hope will add tutorial for the foam and splash 😊
I'm looking forward to getting to those too!
brilliant tutorials, subbed
Thanks
In 4.27... for some reason, when I drop the water body in (in this case, lake) all I get are splines. No water. I've ensured materials are added but still nothing. Help?
Hi, I've had similar issues when I was using this back in UE4.26 and afraid I didn't find a solution. If you do discover the answer, I'd love to know it :)
Thanks man! You rock!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
3:30 Enterprise come in!
:'D Good call!
hi im having an issue where the water isn't affecting my landscape at all, im dragging the river actors until place and moving the splines where i want them but it just doesnt do anything
Hi, perhaps you've done this already, but does setting the landscape worldspace height to 100 and then adding the river actor make a difference?
@@SnapLaunch yeah I saw the other comment, already tried that it didn't work
Thank you very much! It's great!
Glad you like it!
@@SnapLaunch Can a waterfall be made with this Water System?
Thanks, great video
Thanks :)
finally water :DDDD
I hear you!
I'm doing this in 4.27. When i drag in the water body ocean, the yellow line is extremely jagged and the edge of the water doesn't actually lap onto the landscape. It's like there's an invisible barrier that prevents the water from touching the landscape and I can actually see the edge of the slope, separate from the water. I've changed the falloff settings but nothing seems to work.
Having the same problem, did u manage to find a solution?
@@zangreiner1048 yes...but I'm not fully sure why it happened. In the terrain section of the details for the water body, there's an Elevation Curve section with a picture of a curve and a dropdown menu. In that menu I had a couple preset options, including FogBrightnessLut, none of which fixed the issue. When I duplicated the level to try starting over with the water body, that dropdown had way more options and the FloatCurve_Island preset worked for me (although as i look into the dropdown right now, I again only see the FogBrightnessLut as an option, if I wanted to change the curve preset). Do you already have that Island curve preset selected? I have no idea why I'm only able to see it sometimes
Thanks!! Does waterfalls work the same way as the river spline ? Can are there setting to push velocity down (like waterfall would to gravity) ?
Thanks! I haven't done waterfalls - did you find out if they work? :)
@@SnapLaunch Nope, not matching a waterfall no.
Thank you !!!
My pleasure!
Thanks! This was great
Glad it helped!
which build do you have? on my build it doesn't look at this AT ALL.
the underwater mesh is like 1 meter deep only, and the river cannot rise above sea level.
I was using Preview 3 in this version. Interesting differences you mentioned - noticed some issues depending on the Z values I had for the landscape and water systems. I found if I set the landscape and ocean to 100 on the Z that I got more predictable results. I'd keen to know how you go
If i make my Scene excatly like yours and i make a Lake too, then if i put the "BP_Buoyancy" in this Lake, there is no Buoyancy like in the Ocean! Is there any Solution for this problem?
Hey Andreas, I haven't used the "BP_Buoyancy" with a Lake but I hope you found a solution to the issue :)
Can the water body also work when the terrain doesn't use the landscape tool but made of static meshes only?
The lack of waves reaching the sand(shore line) is a problem to me. I would love to see something more like... Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
My landscape doesn't get clipped/Doesn't have its contours changed when I add the ocean body. My landscape has `Enable edit layers`, I have both plugins enabled and I am running my project on UE 4.26.1. any ideas on why this may be happening?
Build all levels, you should get an error like "this water brush requires a landscape refrence" or so. You could find out how to add it, or remove the water thing and readd it until it works. Thats what i did so unfourtently i can only maybe point at the problem you got.
@@pietpanzerpanzer5335 I'm pretty sure I managed to fix it the very same day I commented this, but how - I don't remember. It was for a very old canceled project.
Can the waves be adjusted during playing? Say the character is sailing and a storm is starting to brew up. Or are the waves just static based on what you have set in the editor??
I won't even try to use this water system, too bad because it seems beautifull...thanks for the video anyway
@Paul van Dinther Too many elements, each one having 80% chance to not work normally and taking ages to understand. And what if I have a tiled landscape? I guess like for landscape layers blueprints I can forgot.
Hi! I have one question ＞﹏＜
I don't see a control point (?) to adjust the shape of all water operations.
Is my computer specification a problem? I really don't know why
Hello what to do against the case that the water body custom suffer from a seizure?
how do i make them have collision for bouyancy and what not
I just posted a video on this :)
Does landscape painting work with the body actors?
Can't wait for the day Unreal 5 comes with all of this plus, in a shipped template called "Crysis VR"
(with Megascans!)
That'd be nice - I've always been a big fan of Crysis water!
Oh i have my Landscape. How can select "Enable Edit Layer" now?, i need make a new Landscape? Thanks
Can you show how make character interact with water?
Thanks for your suggestion, I've put it on the list
Do it
didn't see this on the latest livestream before 4.26 release, was this feature pushed to 4.27?
Hi Nicolas, I'm not sure I understand - the water system was pushed in 4.26 preview 3 and is also present in preview 4 - does that answer your question?
@@SnapLaunch i say this because we got a livestream on epic games youtube channel showcasing 4.26 features a few days ago, and they didn't show the water system
@@NicolasSilvaVasault Thanks, I'll have to check that out
Can you try out the new AA method? You can turn it on with just a command `r.TemporalAA.Algorithm=1`
Thanks - I'll try it out in the next video :)
@@SnapLaunch wow, thank you! Btw, afaik this is an upscaling method that produces really high quality images, so the point of it is to use a lower input resolution to produce higher output resolution results (kind of like DLSS but algorithm based and not Machine-Learned)
@@Xperto_ Thanks for explaining it as it's new to me. If they pull off anything close to the latest DLSS outcomes without the ML I'll gratefully accept such magic!
@@SnapLaunch caught a screenshot of the info from today's stream -imgur.com/0eCPIqr
@@Xperto_ Thanks, I've saved it and will refer back to this when I try it out :)
How do i get rid of this fall down edge inside the island? it drives me crazy
how do you get water that is realistic because i only get water that goes through the terrain
I have a landscape but not creating an island after placing the water.
"Enable Edit Layers" must be turned on for the landscape. Additionally, on occasion, I've also found that I have to create the water multiple times to get it to work
@@SnapLaunch I have the edit layer checked. I’ll try to place the water multiple times to see if it works.
Amazing!
Thanks!
@@SnapLaunch Any idea on how to interact with the water? Make ripples? Buoyancy?
Thanks again for the video man
@@idanben-moshe1317 At the moment I have compile errors in mine, so I'm holding off going through it. However if you'd like to explore fluid sims - in engine, in the Content Browser, click the bottom right eye with 'view options', choose 'Show Plugin Content', then on the left, search for 'fluid' and under the 'Fluid Simulation' folder you'll find example levels relating to interaction and ripples
@@SnapLaunch Gotcha 👌
Did you manage to scale the ocean on a large landscape?
It only seems to scale the island...
So this all works great, until I package, then the boats do what it does with one pontoon...Have you tried to package this after building? Maybe someone can verify that it works on their end for me?
Thanks for the heads up - I haven't tried packaging this after building it. Hopefully someone else can chime in with suggestions :)
But, how to make it interact with the character and bullets, like in fortnite?
Setting up ctrl+L and mouse movement is always been a challenging for me to refresh and update 🌞 sun's position in the sky , please help
very useful thnx
Great to know, thanks!
When playing my level with a water body ocean my character runs around fine until I get near the waters edge then the character disappears and the view becomes static. Any ideas why this is happening?
sir i hvae two landscape . landscape 1 and landscape 2 for making level design. so when i put river body in one landscape it appear but when in put in landscape 2 it dont appear where the problem is
I've not used it across multiple landscapes so I'm not sure if it's supported. However, I'd love to hear if you discover an answer :)
@@SnapLaunch done some research but got a simple trick is that world composition using different level will work
Star trek logo lol
Good spot! I didn't even realise :'D
my ocean doesn't appear after zeroing... any ideas?
I've had that happen a number of times and found the only to get it is to try recreating it. Sometimes I've gone into new levels and recreated it and then returned to the level I was originally working in and it works. Wish I had something more solid to offer. Hopefully this ocean will be more stable and predictable in future.
does anyone know if this is a known problem? (understandable, since this is all still in development) - my buoyant object always "falls off" each water type; from lake to river, my object sinks right as it gets to the edge of the lake and same from river to ocean...
Another video comment suggested this, but it's is not seeming to help - I check Generate Overlap Events During Level Streaming on my object under Collision; and I have tried all 3: Use Config Default, Only Update Moveable, and Always Update and my boat still "falls off"/sinks at the edge of a lake or river...am I doing something wrong?
Will there be any way to input custom water shader ?
Well you could replace the water material with a custom shader, but it seems like you'd be missing out on a lot of the work done by EPIC. Is there something this water shader doesn't support that you're looking to achieve?
@@SnapLaunch Yea, I realized, there are many parameters in the Material editor, Like If I want to create Stylized, can I do that with this ?
Great work !!
Is it possible to make a body of water WITHOUT using the landscape (actor)?
Great tutorial, one issue I am running into is raising up the locations of my water, when I pull it up, it does not move, any idea for this issue?
Thanks, also, I experienced that behavior from the beginning of water's release and would be interested to know if you find a solution :)
@@SnapLaunch I found you need to make sure you water is attached to your landscapes, there’s a few tutorials on how to do so
And you are also forgot about cool underwater transition (not post process as you showed). There is some like in Unigine water
If i try using a custom material, It just doesnt render an ocean at all.
I came to this video hoping to find the answer to this questions: how would you go about setting up the actual buoyancy parts? How would you set up the Center socket and key in the Relative Location? Or extract the location data of the ship? I appreciate any feedback. but it does not explain anything about how he did it. Could you find the solution?
Hi Carlos, I did a video on buoyancy here ua-cam.com/video/cOLxTBe5MaY/v-deo.html
And how can you make the water solid? or at least so that the water doesn't change the landscape?
You can use the Water Body Custom and scale it up. That doesn't affect landscape at all.
when i drop the river object in it has no shader or material attatched. Any ideas ? It seems to me that this plugin does not work if you are using a height map and importing the landscape instead of creating one and sculpting it
No, but I have the same problem, did you find a solution?
not yet buddy
I could solve the problem by dragging a WaterBrushManager in and disabling "affects Heightmap"
@@stircledevelopment4792 i shall give this a go
@@stircledevelopment4792 ok i removed all water actors from my scene and reloaded and that seems to have worked
Any idea why I can't get the underwater to show?
I've had the surface not work, but the underwater not working is a new one to me. Thanks for letting me know - I'll keep any eye out for this and hope you find the answer in short order :)
When I put water ocean and river they did not change a landscape's hight.
I'm litteraly crying....as a incredible noob with U4 and programming in general for have this exact same result with older version i had to work for like hours before and the final result was always horrible, water was always my nightmare .How about the interaction and bouancy of object?
Yeah, this water is nice in no time! Interaction and bouancy are on the list - thanks for your suggestion!
Any idea why I don't see the water preview in the viewport when editing? I see it fine when I play the game in the editor.
I upgraded to 4.26.1 (from 4.26) and it now works.
Thanks, good to know that fixed it :)
Landscape_WaterBrushManager_0 This brush requires a Landscape. Add one to the map or remove the brush actor.
help
hi >>> can you Create Ocean waves and some people in small boat >>> i try but i can t ... thank you
Hi, I'm busy currently but I would encourage you to keep trying :) I haven't explored the waves much beyond this example, however you may like to try using the Buoyancy component to float the boat and have the people as children of the boat. I'd be curious to know what solution you discover - good luck!
In my heightmap based landscape I have no way to use the lake or river if the ocean one is already in the scene, they just don't render.
If I drop the lake first then when I add the ocean it sculpt the landscape in something unusable.
It sucks the lack of documentation, I understand this is experimental but Epic doesn't give a fuck about developers.
the island gave me star trek vibes 😂
so i assume the foam is bad?
I don't know if it's bad per se, just not what I was after here :)
Hi great tutorial. i have built an island system. Put in the water plain got it the way i like it but when i do a test play there is no water any ideas. Thanks
Nice, unfortunately I haven't encountered the water disappearing at runtime. If you're not already running the latest Preview (5 at the time of writing this) I would to try updating to it and keen to know if that changes anything? Thanks
@@SnapLaunch Thanks for the quick response. I am Running 4.26 preview 5 it's fine when working on it just when ever i test play it's not there.
Hi just to let you know I solved the problem. I unloaded the plugin then re installed it and the shallow water one and now it's fine.
On a side note do you have or know of a tutorial for chopping down trees or mining rocks so you can collect them.
@@BrianSmithgrumpygit Hi Brian, thanks for letting me know you were using preview 5 and how you solved it. Regarding the tutorials, I am unaware of examples for the ones you mentioned, but hope you discover something useful. Cheers, Ben
5:45 sus island
This plugin just don't work well in my projects. I see a lot of artifacts, sometimes materials don't compile, falloff settings just literaly do nothing. I am very disapointed :(
Post process and water collision doesnt work on water body custom!!!
Why is my water so dark compaerd to yours?
I'm not sure - do you have a sunlight as well? Also, perhaps creating a material instance of the water and then adjusting it's parameters might help.
well i cant find it. the water body custom
Water isn't there for me, only the shallow water plug-in is
What preview version are you using?
Awesome. I have been playing around with the water yesterday evening. But I couldn't get it to work properly.
Maybe I shouldn't drink and edit...
Nice - did you end up getting it to work properly?
@@SnapLaunch yeah kinda. I do think this system needs some work. But I made a similar scene you have.
Sorry, but ocean water was in Nvidia Waveworks, and Ocean Community. This is plastic water, very good for DirectX 9, not DirectX 12.
Hey nice tutorial, I have a problem though, my cube just sinks and doesnt float and i did everything like you did.
Mine too.
5:40 That's kinda sus...
UwU we got water
Oh yeah!
AMOGUIS
dont try using it in VR... It hurts your eyes..
haha, duly noted
sorry but it looks bad
Thank you !
My pleasure!